Date of the judgment: 07.07.2004.
Official publication: 09.07.2004.
On Compliance of Section 114.2 of Administrative Violation Code with April 9, 1965 Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic
Constitutional Court ruled:
1. To declare the following text of Article 1142 (the first part) of the Latvian Administrative Violation Code: ”for carrying one or several persons from the foreign states to the Republic of Latvia if the above persons do not have valid travel documents for crossing the Republic of Latvia border and if it has been realized by the carrier of maritime transport” from the moment of its adoption till May 1, 2004 as unconformable with Standard 3.15 of the International Convention on Facilitation of Maritime Traffic, signed in London on April 9, 1965 and null and void as concerns the carriers of those states, which are the Contracting States of the above Convention.
2. To declare the following text of the first part of Article 1142 of the Latvian Administrative Violation Code: ” for carrying one or several persons from the foreign states to the Republic of Latvia if the above persons do not have valid travel documents for crossing the Republic of Latvia border and if it has been realized by the carrier of maritime transport” from May 1, 2004 as unconformable with Standard 3.15 of the International Convention on Facilitation of Maritime Traffic, signed in London on April 9, 1965 and null and void as regards the carriers of those states, which are Contracting States of the above Convention but are not EU Member States.